Carpet stretcher and tacker



(No Model.)

GJW. ANSLBY s5 0. 0. MAY. CARPET STRETCHER AND TACKER.

No. 595,845. Patented D60. 21,1897.

UNITED STATES GEORGE WV. ANSLEY, OF MEDICAL LAKE, AND CHARLES DAVENPORT,WASHINGTON.

PATENT Qrrrcn.

0. MAY, or

CARPET STRETCHER AND TACKER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 595,845, dated December21, 1897.

Application filed June 5, 1897. Serial No. 639,590. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. ANSLEY, residing at Medical Lake, in thecounty of Spokane, and OHARLESO. MAY, residing at Davenport, in thecountyof Lincoln, State of Washington, citizens of the United States,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet Stretchersand Tackers; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference.being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in carpetstretchers and tackers, and especially to means whereby a tack may beautomatically lifted from a box and allowed to fall by gravity in asuitable guideway to the lower end of the device, where provision ismade for receiving the tack, from which it is presented point downwardin readiness for the plunger or drivingrod, which is designed to strikethe head of the tack and drive it in place after the carpet has beenstretched ready to receive the nail.

A further part of our invention resides in the provision of meanswhereby but one tack may be fed forward at a time to the lower portionof the device, and which consists of a notched disk which is actuatedautomatically as the driving-rod is raised, soas to bring the notch inthe disk to register with the slot carrying the tacks, to receive butone tack at a time, allowing it to pass by the disk, and by a reversemovement of the driving I rod the disk is returned to its first positionin readiness to receive another tack.

To these ends and to such others as the invention may pertain the sameconsists, further, in the novel construction, combination, andadaptation of the parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, andthen specifically defined in the appended claims.

\Ve clearly illustrate our invention in the accompanying drawings,which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification, and in which drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of one sideof the tacker. Fig. 1 is a plan view, in side elevation, showing thestock with all of the parts removed. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinalsectional view through our improved tacker and stretcher. Fig. 3 is adetail view of the tack-feeding device. Fig. at is a perspective view ofa detail feature of the invention, showing the tack-receivingreceptacle. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the tack-raising member workingthrough the apertured receptacle D. Fig. 6 is a detail view showing thenose of the stock in the stretcher.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, Adesignates the main stock of the tacker, to the lower end of which isconnected by a link B the stretcher C, having pivotal connectiontherewith, which has on its under side suitable spurs 0-, which engagein the carpet. Near the forward end of the stretcher is a recessedportion 0, in which the nose or free end of the tack-deliveringreceptacle may engage when it is desired to push the carpet up to thebase-board, as will be understood. This nose portion is provided with aspur 7.2 to. hold the end of the driverstock from slipping.

The stock is recessed longitudinally, as at A, and down which the tacksare allowed to fall by gravity from the tack-receptacle D. Thistack-receiving receptacle is open at its upper end, and its side wallstaper inwardly and meet at their lower ends in the walls of theelongated slotted portion D. vertically in said slot is the memberDwhich has its upper end beveled, as seen at d, and is slotted, as at d.The lower end wall of said slot is also inclined and parallel with theupper end of the member. This member or tack-raiser is actuatedlongitudinally each time the driving-rod E is raised by means of the rodF, the lower bent end of which is hooked into an aperture in the lowerend of the tack-raising member D while the upper end of the said rod isbent at a right angle and passed through the stock in a slot madetherein. Its end extends beyond the opposite side of the stock and inthe path of the cross-piece or pin F, which strikes the end of the rodas the driving-rod is raised. By this movement a tack is raised out ofthe box with its head resting on the inclined top of WVorking the memberD with the shank portion of the tack passing down in the recessed end ofthe said member. A laterally-extending portion d with inclined upperedge, which is channeled, guides the tacks after they are raised by thesaid member and allowed to fall by gravity into the inclined slottedportion of the stock and down the inclined shoulders on opposite sidesof the slot until the head of the tack comes in contact withlongitudinally movable strip G, this strip serving to retain the tacksin their passage to the lower end of the stock, the tacks falling atright angles to the length of the stock until the notched disk isreached. Attached in a recessed portion of the said stock near its lowerend is a plate H, which has pivoted to its under surface the notchedtack-feeding disk H, having the two horns 7th, which are pointed inopposite directions, one being slightly in advance of the other, asshown in the drawings. The outer side of the said disk has a notch h, inwhich the end of a hook G, carried by the strip G, is designed tonormally engage, and the plate H is notched out at H so as to allow thehook G to freely engage in the said notch h. The upper eiid of the stripG has upwardlyextending portions 9 g, which are turned up on oppositesides of the rod E, and against the lower ends of which upturnedportions the cross-piece F is designed to strike when the driving-rod Eis raised. This longitudinal movement which is imparted to the strip Gwill cause the said disk to make a partial revolution, causing the tackwhich has entered the space between the horns on the disk to passthrough the aperture H in the plate H, and the tack continues on in itsdownward movement until the tack-delivering receptacle K is reached. Asthe tack comes in contact with this receptacle the point of the same isforwardly projected and is ready to be driven by the driving-rod, theend of which rod works through ing driven. its first position to feedanother tack, a pin N the said receptacle and may be constructed with aknob at its upper end. A suitable spring M is mounted in thetack-delivering receptacle, so as to hold the tack steadily, as well asthe driving-rod, when the tack is be- In order to lower the strip G tois placed above the end of the strip G on the rod E, so that the stripwill be struck by the said pin on the return or downward move ment ofthe said rod.

In case at any time the device gets out of I order and it is desired tofeed the tacks into the stock by hand provision is made by the we claimto be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Iii combination with the stretcher recessed as at c on its upperface, the tacker having a spur at its lower end designed to engage withthe shouldered end of the said recess, and the link B pivoted at one endto the tacker, its other end pivoted to the stretcher, substantially asshown and described.

2. In combination with the tacker channeled as described and containingthe tackreceiving receptacle and member D for raising the tackstherefrom; the plate H, the tackfeeding disk pivoted thereto, the stripG, the upturned ears g thereon, the hooked rod G securedto said strip G,the driving-rod E, the cross-pins N and F carried by said rod, alladapted to be operated substantiall y as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE W. ANSLEY. CHARLES 0. MAY.

\Vitnesses:

F. H. LUoE, J. E. FRASER.

